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Route 66
Day 4 of our roadtrip called for an uneventful 10-hour trip from Williams, Arizona to San Luis Obispo, California. We continued to see signs about Historic Route 66 as we drove along and we talked about how much fun it would be to try to follow the old route sometime. We stopped in Kingman, Arizona for drinks (at Sonic!) and…
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Grand Canyon
We spent the first day of our trip traveling. We enjoyed southern Utah on the second day. Day 3 was our day to see the Grand Canyon. Lyle had planned our trip to allow for plenty of time there. Our first stop inside the park was at an overlook that had a watchtower we could climb for great views of…
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Bryce Canyon National Park
We just returned from a 10-day road-trip. Part of it was vacation, and part of it was work-related (homeschool convention). I’ll be posting highlights of the trip as a series. There’s too much to put in one post. Our route took us from our home in north Idaho, down through western Montana, back through the bottom of Idaho, then down…
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I Love Camping!
On Thursday Lyle called to ask if I wanted to go camping that night and Friday night. Of course I did! We decided we could take the camper up to the state park that night and spend the night, then he would go to work on Friday. He thought I could stay out there with the kids on Friday, but…
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Montana Trip
We took our new RV to Kalispell, Montana to the Montana homeschool convention this past weekend. That was fun! Since it was the holiday weekend we stayed over an extra day and went to Glacier National Park. We were disappointed that the pass on the Going-to-the-Sun Road was still closed, so we couldn’t go all the way over it. We…
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Anne of Green Gables
The girls and I have been listening to the audio-book of Anne of Green Gables in the car over the last 2 or 3 weeks as we tootle about our errands. Of course I’ve read it umpteen times before but this is the first time I’ve listened to someone else read it! The reader does a great job! I am…
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Children’s Lit
I love children’s literature! Lately I’ve been re-reading some of the books I enjoyed as a child. I don’t know if it’s the nostalgia factor or if books written back then just really were better than most of the newer stuff. Actually, a lot of the stuff I read when I was growing up (in the ’70s) was written in…
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Revival
Our pastor has a burden to see a real revival in our day… and I’m finally beginning to catch the vision. We have gone for so long without it, that I’m afraid I am (or was) almost to the point of not believing it could really happen again. Yesterday the pastor gave me some notes of a sermon he preached…
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Sisterchicks
I’ve heard about this series for awhile, but finally found one at the library. It was a kinda fun read… but it made me wonder… Am I the only woman who doesn’t have a “sisterchick” and doesn’t really feel a need for one? The cover blurb has a definition… sisterchick n.: a friend who shares the deepest wonders of your…
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Camping
Camping was great… 48 hours is just too short. We didn’t get to spend as much time with “just us” as we usually do. We actually spent significant portions of our time visiting with 3 other families. We aren’t by nature real outgoing, so I think that was good for us. We met up with some casual acquaintances who just…
